It's a beautiful morning for a walk and with the mist hanging in the air, the spider webs are decorating the landscape. There are many orb webs to be seen like this one we admired and photographed near Barnfield in Kent but did you know that spiders don't just use webs to catch flies?

Yarrow is still flowering - a welcome sign of life on cold November days. The plant commonly blooms in spring with ovate clusters of white to pink flowers but continues to flourish though out the year.

Readers of our bushcraft blog seem to be very keen jam makers during the jam making season with some of the wild fruits that Mother Nature offers us here in the United Kingdom. In this article we will show you how to make an exceptionally delicious jam using damsons and plums. This is a real treat for the taste buds!

Anyone that follows our Bushcraft Blog will be aware of some of the previous articles we have written about footwear, boot and trainer reviews plus also bushcraft boot maintenance and cleaning. In this article we will be look at the Merrell Moab Mid Gore-Tex boot purchased from Nightgear.

In this Badger Bushcraft Blog we are delighted to have guest author Liz Wakelin contributing with her experiences of the Frontier Stove made by our friends over at Camping Solutions UK. So without further ado I’ll pass you over to Liz with her article and fantastic pictures.

Over the coming months we will be testing and reporting back on the Badger Bushcraft Blog on Smartent sleeping system offering “Off Ground Technology” and featuring our comments on the Kit Tried And Tested Section.

Let us design a programme to your needs, including bushcraft, survival skills, primitive technology, nature education, backwoods cooking or any other related subject.

"Year 5 took part in a ‘Badger Bush Craft’ workshop. This was a whole day of practical activities led by Phil Brown, a specialist in outdoor learning. Following this a number of children together with their families were invited to take part in a Saturday workshop to learn survival skills, building shelters, lighting fires etc. This was part of an extended services project."